Managing Storage Growth with an Affordable and Flexible IP SAN[1]

SOLUTIONS BRIEF Managing Storage Growth with an Affordable and Flexible IP SAN A highly cost-effective storage solution that leverages existing IT resources. The Business Challenge Key Benefits • Easy to install, manage and use reducing training expenses • Consolidation of resources onto two manageable platforms frees up resources • Cost-effective storage solution for enterprise-class consolidation needs • Simplifies data sharing between different OSs • Scalable NAS solution for easy expansion Enterprise data requirements grow at 50 - 100 percent a year, creating a constant storage infrastructure management challenge. As new storage is brought into the environment, it is typically added within inflexible single server “silos.” Ensuring that data is available to all users usually means moving data from server to server to make it accessible. However, this is time-consuming and results in multiple pools of data that need to be managed – neither of which improves ROI. Unmatched Storage Scaling and Ease-of-Management Intransa’s StorControl® management platform provides a single management interface and software platform that enables storage to be scaled from one to 40 TB. Intransa’s StorCluster feature provides additional capability for enterprise survivability and for very large storage environments. StorCluster provides load balancing and the industry’s only N-Way performance scaling architecture. When using multiple Intransa controllers and StorCluster, if a storage controller should fail, the surviving controllers automatically re-distribute the load. Efficiently Consolidate and Share Resources The best practice to improve the ROI of computing and storage resources is to efficiently consolidate and share these resources. An IPSAN provides a highly cost-effective storage solution that leverages an enterprise’s existing IT expertise and resources. A shared file system eliminates the inflexible “single server data silos” and makes data readily available to those who need it. Affordable Server Consolidation Melio FS and LaScala enable servers and storage to be consolidated by creating a flexible shared storage pool. All servers sharing Melio FS have simultaneous access to shared files and are easily managed as a single, highly available, scalable system. This greatly simplifies access to, and administration of, data and storage and improves computing resource flexibility. It also allows many applications to be scaled modularly by adding additional industry standard servers clustered into the common file system. The symmetrical architecture and shared data access provide inherent redundancy. There is no single point of failure. The cluster continues to function normally when a server fails, and any server in the cluster can provide backup for all others. Melio is designed to work seamlessly with Windows XP, 2000, and 2003. Key Features • Highly scalable and survivable • Single file storage pool and block realm set • Uses existing disk admin tools • Metadata server is not required • High performance, available architecture Intransa® and Sanbolic Provide the Solution Intransa has partnered with Sanbolic to provide a cost effective solution to storage and server consolidation. This solution is tested and certified using the IntraStor® platform and Melio File System and LaScala™ Volume Manager. SOLUTIONS BRIEF “ We found that the Intransa IP-SAN addressed our storage pain points comprehensively and interestingly had a low initial TCO. - Aditya Menon Group CIO Mphasis ” Shared Data Access Provides Inherent Redundancy This combined solution has been tested and certified Intransa® Ready. Sanbolic Products Melio FS LaScala Volume Manager Intransa Products IntraStor Platform StorControl StorCluster Sanbolic, Inc. 304 Pleasant Street, 2nd Floor Watertown, MA 02472 Phone: 617 926 2805 Fax: 617 926 2808 About Sanbolic Sanbolic’s products address the growing customer need for tools that simplify data storage management, increase system flexibility, and enable high bandwidth shared access to data. The product offerings are Melio FS, an advanced symmetrical cluster file system and LaScala, a symmetrical cluster volume manager. Further information about Sanbolic can be found on its website www.sanbolic.com. Intransa Inc. 2870 Zanker Road. Suite 200 San Jose, CA 95134 Phone: 866 446 8726 Fax: 408 678 8800 About Intransa Founded in September 2000, Intransa is an innovator of enterprise-class, intelligent IP storage products and software. Based on technology that leverages the low cost and maturity of Ethernet technology, Intransa’s IP SAN solutions dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of deploying scalable network storage. Intransa’s products re-define network storage to deliver the first full-featured IP SAN at a price attractive to organizations. ©2005 Intransa, Inc. All rights reserved. Intransa, the Intransa logo, Simply Smarter, IntraStor and StorControl are registered trademarks of Intransa, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All specifications subject to change without prior notice. 5/05 SB-014-1